Big Tech's New Adversaries in Europe

For the past five years, Big Tech has faced a flurry of new rules and reprimands from Brussels. Now with a new team taking over the European Commission, relations may be entering a new era. If the past five years of EU tech rules could take human form, they would embody Thierry Breton . The bombastic commissioner, with his swoop of white hair, became the public face of Brussels' irritation with American tech giants, touring Silicon Valley last summer to personally remind the industry of looming regulatory deadlines. Combative and outspoken, Breton warned that Apple had spent too long " squeezing " other companies out of the market.